NAME

       dh_pysupport - use the python-support framework to handle Python modules

SYNOPSIS

       dh_pysupport [debhelper options] [-V X.Y] [-X item [...]] [-n] [module dirs ...]

DESCRIPTION

       dh_pysupport is a debhelper program that will scan your package, detect public modules in
       /usr/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages, and move them to the shared Python modules location. It
       will generate appropriate postinst/prerm scripts to byte-compile modules installed there
       for all available python versions.

       It will also look for private Python modules and will byte-compile them with the current
       Python version. You may have to list the directories containing private Python modules.

       If a file named debian/pyversions exists, it is used to determine the python versions with
       which the package can work.

       Appropriate dependencies on python-support, python and pythonX.Y are put in
       ${python:Depends}.  The ${python:Versions} and ${python:Provides} optional substitution
       variables are made available as well.

OPTIONS

       module dirs
           If your package installs private python modules in non-standard directories, you can
           make dh_pysupport check those directories by passing their names on the command line.
           By default, it will check /usr/lib/$PACKAGE, /usr/share/$PACKAGE,
           /usr/lib/games/$PACKAGE and /usr/share/games/$PACKAGE

       -n, --noscripts
           Do not modify postinst/postrm scripts.

       -d  This option is deprecated.

       -V X.Y
           Force private modules to be bytecompiled with the specific X.Y python version,
           regardless of the default python version on the system.

       -X item, --exclude=item
           Exclude files that contain "item" anywhere in their filename from being taken into
           account to generate the python dependency. It also excludes them from byte-
           compilation. You may use this option multiple times to build up a list of things to
           exclude.

CONFORMS TO

       Python policy as of 2006-08-10

SEE ALSO

       debhelper(7)

       This program is a part of python-support but is made to work with debhelper.

AUTHORS

       Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>, Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>